Lets paint a mermaid and mermaid tail (friends) poking through a magical moonlit ocean night scene.
Oka, now lets get ready to paint some mermaids!
For a summary of the drawing follow the infographic below.
For more detailed step by step instructions, you’re free to follow thishow to draw a mermaidtutorial.
How Do You Paint a Mermaid?
To mix skin color all you need are the 3 primary colors: red , blue and yellow.
Check out this post for more details onhow to make skin color paint.
Using your skin color paint, paint in the mermaids torso and arms.
Paint the tail with phthalo green paint, using a small round brush.
You might need 2 layers of phthalo green if you could still see your chalk/pencil marks below.
Mix in a lighter green paint by adding a tiny bit of titanium white with your pthalo green.
Using your small round brush paint in little lines (mermaid tail scales) with the lighter green color.
Paint in mermaid scales in the middle of your tail only.
Youll only be painting 2-3 scales along the middle of your mermaids tail.
This will be the light reflecting off your mermaids tail and make the tail look 3D and dimensional.
We want the streaky look which will look more like hair tendrils.
Did you make this project?
Once downloaded you could print out the stencil thentransfer the drawing to canvas.
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